■Period：August 11,2007 to October 8,2007
■Closed Day：Monday (Tuesday if Monday is a national holiday)
■Venue：Images & Technology Gallery, B1F
■Admission：Adults ￥500(400)／College Students ￥400(320)／High School and Junior School Students, Over 65 ￥250(200)
※ The figure in parentheses refers to a group discount rate applicable to groups of 20 people or more and a discount rate applicable to members of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. ※Admission is free of charge for primary school students & younger children, disabled persons and their caretakers.※Admission is free of charge for persons aged 65 or older on the third Wednesday of each month
The staff of the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography consists of curators, specialist researchers, librarians and specialists in conservation science, who organize exhibitions, acquire works and source material on photography or imagery, carry out educational activities, run the library and undertake scientific research into the conservation of photographic materials.
These specialist staff members have developed individualistic views on photography during the course of their careers as can be seen in the upcoming “Curators’ Choice '07” exhibition. They have selected works from the Museum’s collection, on the theme of ‘Museum Dialogues’, using their specialist insights into the work to present dialogues with the artists or the works but more especially with the visitors to the exhibition, thereby demonstrating the great attraction of the Museum of Photography.
Selecting works from a total of over twenty-three thousand photographs and approximately fifty-four thousand publications and books concerning photography or imagery, the staff will present little-known masterpieces and astounding, rare works. These works are not the type that are likely to be seen at ordinary exhibitions, they are unknown masterpieces that the Museum’s specialist staff feel deserve greater exposure. (Approximately 180 works will be shown)
